Bernard Lortholary Book order (chronological)

Schlink, internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of "The Reader, " brings a sleek concision and moral acuity to these seven tales of modern men uneasily suspended between the desire for love and the impulse toward flight. Brooding, comic, and filled with psychological suspense, "Plights of Love" is nothing less than masterful.

A meditation on the connections between Germany's past and its present, dramatised with extreme emotional intelligence as the story of a relationship between the narrator and an older woman.

The story of K and his arrival in a village where he is never accepted, and his relentless, unavailing struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the castle that seems to rule it. K's isolation and perplexity, his begging for the approval of elu

Normalerweise gehen Kontrabässe unter im Orchester, es gibt keine Soloparts, höchstens Duos. Im Leben des Musikers ist der Kontrabaß Geliebte, Freund, Feind und Verhinderer des eigenbestimmten Weges. Soziale Analyse, Slapstick und Milieukomik und ein fest gespannter Bogen, der monologisch und entschlossen den Schwingungen des menschlichen Zusammenspiel(en)s nachstreicht.

In America, Kafka leads the reader through a world of strips, hotels and offices that grow stranger and stranger and more comic and bewildering, the more realistically the author describes them.

When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to reveal his appearance to family and colleagues. Although over the following weeks he gradually becomes used to this new existence confined within the bounds of the apartment, and his parents and sister adapt to living with a grotesque bug, Gregor notices that their attitudes towards him are changing and he feels increasingly alienated. One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature, ‘The Metamorphosis’ is accompanied in this volume by a selection of other classic tales and sketches by Kafka – such as ‘The Judgement’, ‘In the Penal Colony’ and ‘A Country Doctor’ – all presented in a lively and meticulous new translation by Christopher Moncrieff.